[R] Vector Product question

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

try this:

x <- c(3, 3, 1)
y <- c("x","h","y")

paste(rep(y, x), unlist(sapply(x, seq_len)), sep = "")


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Quoting Rory Winston <rory.winston at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> Ive looked around but I cant figure out how to do this without a for
> loop. I have a vector of neural net weights from coef.nnet(), which
> looks like c(3,3,1). I also have a list of weight prefixes, which are
> c("x","h","y"). I would like to obtain a vector that looks like
> c("x1","x2","x3","h1","h2","h3","y1") - i.e. if we think of the numeric
> weight vector as a matrix B ([1 2 3],[1 2 3], [1 0 0]), its like a
> paste() of the element in vector A[i] with each element in the row i:
> B[i][j]. I can see that Ripley & Venables use the following, using
> seq_len and paste() :
>
>  wts <- object$wts
>  wm <- c("b", paste("i", seq_len(object$n[1]), sep=""))
>  if(object$n[2] > 0)
>  wm <- c(wm, paste("h", seq_len(object$n[2]), sep=""))
>  if(object$n[3] > 1)  wm <- c(wm,
>  paste("o", seq_len(object$n[3]), sep=""))
>
> Is it possible to compress this to a one-liner?
>
> Cheers
> Rory
>
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